[NUT-devel] [RFC] extradata clarification

[Loren Merritt]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> i propose to add the following somewhere in the spec
>
> codec_specific_data SHOULD contain exactly the essential global packets
> needed to decode a stream, more specifically it SHOULD NOT contain packets
> which contain only non essential metadata like author, title, ...
> it also MUST NOT contain normal packets which cause the reference decoder
> to generate any specific decoded samples

How does this apply to encoder version info packets, as used by x264, 
xvid, and divx? They're non-essential metadata in that the reference 
decoder ignores them, but libavcodec uses them for bug workarounds.

--Loren Merritt